Category: Follies

Boughton, Northamptonshire. On a ridge of rolling hills deep in the Northamptonshire countryside sits a strange spinney (small cluster of trees). Too round to be natural, too wild to be tended, it crowns the fields of oilseed rape, of waving wheat and black-faced sheep. A footpath leads down from Butchers Lane, in the bucolic village Boughton, long…